Back to School

Could the summer have gone by any faster??? I just realized we are already 3 weeks into the school year. Things are off to a busy start again. Here are the updates: Erin - Erin is really enjoying her classes. She set a goal of 1,000 AR points this year. She got about 150 points this summer. I think 1,000 is a little bit of a stretch, but who knows. Erin is playing volleyball on the B team. Their first game is this week. Erin loves her coaches. We couldn't ask for better people to be with Erin...Coach Morgan and Coach Sirman rule! So far, Erin hasn't had a lot of homework, so she has been able to read quite a bit. Erin's first football game to cheer at is in a couple of weeks in Cameron. Elizabeth may try and make it down for her first game. Emily - Emily decided not to do athletics this year. There were a couple of coaches disappointed, but understood she wanted to concentrate on academics. She is a varsity cheerleader this year. She has had a lot of fun so far. She found out quick how tough sophomore year can be...lots of work! She has managed to keep up with everything. It helps she doesn't have too many things going on so she can stay on top of her school work. Emily got all of her AR points needed for school this summer...she did not enjoy having to deal with reading and testing this summer, but she just made the comment how glad she was it was out of the way. Em has her learner's permit, so she has started chauffeuring Melinda back and forth to school. Can't believe it's already time for her to drive. Em went hunting with Keaton for the first time. Didn't get any dove, but practice shooting a milk carton with a bow and killed it. She is excited about hunting now (she has camo hat and shirt). Elizabeth - We moved E into her dorm at Texas A&M. Everybody was a little sad, but E is having a great time. She has made it to 2 yell practices, and 2 home games. Unfortunately, she has had to sit in the 3rd deck for both games. This saturdays game against Alabama will probably find her in the 3rd deck again. We spent an entire day (8am-10pm) getting E moved in and settled. Very long day, but her room looked really good. She really likes her professors and can actually understand them all...YEA!!! She is deciding on an organization to join since she decided against a sorority. She is thinking the Aggie Belles, but she wants to take time to be sure. She just got a job on campus helping to set up conferences. The person in charge will let her sit in on any accounting conferences so she can see budgeting, etc. Right now, she is thinking about 25-30 hours per week. Great thing about the job is they told her 3 separate time that school comes first. If she needs off to study for a quiz, etc she can take it. We'll see how things go and how she handles the hours. She came home this past weekend to see Em cheer at her first home game. It was a quick visit - she went back to B/CS the next day for the football game. Dad gets to see Elizabeth a little more than everyone else since he goes to B/CS for work. Melinda - Mel started back to work and really likes the kids this year. Hopefully, this year will not be as challenging as last year. She has been spending crazy amounts of time at school staying ahead of the curve and trying to be as prepared as possible. There are some changes going on at her work - some growing pains - but looks to be a good year. Melinda is looking forward to parent's weekend at A&M in October.